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Corvo Bianco

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3. I worked for a bank where my manager pulled the alarm because a black guy came in.

Reply to gollygee (Original post)

Sun Jun 3, 2018, 08:37 PM

Jun 2018

The police reviewed the video tape and saw a black man walk into the bank and talk to one of our loan officers just the way white dudes do all day long. The police explained that the alarm is for armed robberies only, but had no guts to ask what my boss was afraid of. Good ol Utah.

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I used to be a 911 dispatcher. I had to respond to racist calls every day. [View all] gollygee Jun 2018 OP

America has a lot of really ugly hateful and bigoted racist people about all sorts of things. RKP5637 Jun 2018 #1

I just shake my head Ohiogal Jun 2018 #2

I worked for a bank where my manager pulled the alarm because a black guy came in. Corvo Bianco Jun 2018 #3

Bless you for that work Haggis for Breakfast Jun 2018 #4

Most states have a charge of "misusing 911" or the equivalent Lee-Lee Jun 2018 #8

Dispatchers can choose Corgigal Jun 2018 #5

Depends what the local policy is on if they can not send Lee-Lee Jun 2018 #7

As a black man this shit terrorizes me way more than ISIS or MS13 or what ever uponit7771 Jun 2018 #6